Accident Brief: Cirrus SR22 Fuselage Damaged During Crash In Tulsa, Oklahoma
One person was injured in this plane accident in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Mysteries Of Flight: The Day The Music Died
What really happened the ’Day The Music Died,’ when rock n’ roll artists Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and ’The Big Bopper,’ J.P. Richardson Jr., perished in a plane crash in 1959?
Accident Brief: Two Died In Kolb TWINSTAR Accident
The NTSB report on a Kolb TWINSTAR accident in La Porte, Texas, that left two people dead.
Accident Brief: Fatal Kubicek BB30 Accident
The NTSB’s report on a balloon accident in Ashland, Ohio, that caused one fatality and left three injured.
The Local Airport Character
Some of them turn out to be guardian angels. Virgil was exactly that.
Plane Facts: Airports
To pilots, airports are magical places. It’s where the dream of flight takes wing and becomes reality. Since 1903, the number of airports in the United States (and in the world) have grown steadily, though the exact number is hard to say. What constitutes an airport, anyways? Well, if you step outside the FAA’s airport […]
February 2020 Crossword Key
Across 1 High Sierra Fly-In mainstays 8 Chopper blade 9 Generic term for a plane’s heat engine 10 New landing light 12 ____ Prentice plane 14 Time just before an event 16 John Wayne’s plane? 17 Related to light 21 Naval rank, for short 22 […]
Mysteries of Flight: The Disappearance of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When the author of The Little Prince never returned from a reconnaissance flight in the south of France in 1943, an enduring mystery was born. It persists to this day.
